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Mamta Gupta

Call: 2004

"Mamta Gupta is very thorough and very good with experts in conference."

Chambers UK 2025

"Mamta turns work around quickly and can be relied upon to provide excellent advice."

Chambers UK 2025

"Mamta is meticulous on her preparation and has a very good eye for detail. She is excellent with experts and with the client, especially in sensitive cases."

Legal 500 2025 Leading Junior (London)

"Mamta is exceptionally strong on the details of a case and meticulous in her preparation. She also has a lovely manner with clients and experts alike. She is a go-to barrister."

Legal 500 2025

"Mamta is very thorough and always makes herself available." "She is very hard-working."

Chambers UK 2024

Mamta Gupta practices exclusively in the fields of clinical negligence and personal injury, acting for both Claimants and Defendants.

Mamta is consistently recognised in the legal directories. The latest entry in Legal 500 2024 quotes,“Mamta has great attention to detail. She is hugely reliable and a great advocate.” “Mamta’s great strengths are her attention to detail and drafting. She is extremely thorough in conference and is a pleasure to work with.” Chambers and Partners 2024 notes, “Mamta is very thorough and always makes herself available.” “She is very hard-working.”

Mamta is a highly sought after and extremely busy senior junior. She is dedicated to working as part of the legal team alongside her instructing solicitors and delivering a first-class service whilst making a difference for her clients. Mamta is extremely accessible, easy to work with, has a prompt turnaround of work and excellent attention to detail. Mamta is often instructed in the most delicate of cases and regularly works on complex and high value matters in her own right and when acting as junior with Leading Counsel.

In respect of her CN practice, Mamta has extensive experience in all areas of medical negligence including but not restricted to, obstetric failures, mental health cases and cases involving brain injury and amputation.

In respect of her PI practice, Mamta has extensive experience of working in serious injury cases involving Claimants who have been involved in road traffic accidents or having suffered as a result of employers liability or occupiers liability. Mamta is used to working on cases where the rehabilitation code is engaged.

Expertise

Clinical Negligence

Mamta practices the following areas:

Amputation

Mamta has worked a number of different amputation cases including those involving below the knee or full leg amputations and with a double amputee.

Brain Injury & Cerebral Palsy

Adult cases such as:

  • Delay in diagnosis of traumatic brain injury
  • Failure to identify low sodium levels resulting in central pontine myelinolysis

Cancer

Mamta has worked on a large number of oncology cases including:

  • Failure to identify DCIS/pre-invasive breast cancer resulting in death; – Failure to diagnose lung cancer;
  • Delay in treating ovarian cancer
  • Failures in treating prostate cancer.

Gynaecology & Obstetrics

Mamta’s experience includes:

  • wrongful birth cases
  • stillbirths caused by obstetric failures
  • death during medical termination surgery
  • shoulder dystocia/Erbs Palsy cases
  • failures in neonatal care
  • perineal tears

Medical / Surgical

Mamta has worked in the full range of general medical and surgical cases including:

  • colorectal cases;
  • orthopaedic cases;
  • plastic surgery cases – general surgical cases

Mental Health

  • Suicide cases

Inquests, Public Inquiries & Coronial Law

Mamta practices the following areas:

Inquests, Public Inquiries & Coronial Law (Clinical Negligence)

Mamta has carried out a large number of inquests in her practice to date including those engaging Article 2 and also those involving juries.

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"Mamta has great attention to detail. She is hugely reliable and a great advocate." "Mamta’s great strengths are her attention to detail and drafting. She is extremely thorough in conference and is a pleasure to work with."


"She is excellent with clients and really hard-working." "Mamta is very empathetic and understanding. She has a good eye for detail and really cares for what she does."


"Excellent with clients and very involved and passionate about the cases she takes on."


"Mamta is an excellent senior junior and one of the most thorough and reliable counsel. Her medical knowledge and attention to detail when questioning experts are impressive."


"She is a delight to work with and pays incredible attention to detail - she will not let any stone go unturned." "She is very organised, thorough, and has an excellent manner with clients. She responds in a timely manner and keeps to the deadlines she sets."


"Extremely forensic - goes into every detail with a fine- tooth comb." "Excellent with clients and experts - puts clients at ease and talks to them in a way they can understand the complex points of their claim." "Mamta is tenacious and straight talking." "She is an asset in challenging cases."


"She is very bright, responds in a timely manner and is very good with clients." "An excellent and very conscientious junior."


"A strong advocate who is very thorough and always goes the extra mile."


  • Lincolns Inn Lord Denning Scholar [Bar Vocational Course]
  • Lincolns Inn Lord Wolfson Scholar [Pupillage]
  • Inner Temple Pegasus Scholar [New Zealand]
  • Personal Injury Bar Association
  • Professional Negligence Bar Association
  • APIL
  • Trustee, the 999 Club (Voluntary)
  • Trustee of the 999 Club for the Homeless.
  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology 2(i)
  • Dip Law (Commendation)
  • Dip International Relations [New York University]
  • Programme on Negotiation, [Harvard Law School]
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Related News, Resources and Events

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KXC & Others V University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Jonathan Jones QC and Mamta Gupta, successfully settled an oncological case in April 2020 in which the Defendant NHS Trust agreed to pay a Periodical…

News


No5 hosts successful event to mark 100 years of women in law

No5 Barristers’ Chambers joined forces with Moore Blatch Solicitors to host an “inspiring evening” to mark the centenary of women in law. The event attracted…

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Clerk Team

William Theaker

Practice Director, Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury

williamt@no5.com

07494 070989

Clare Radburn

Practice Director, Family, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury

clarer@no5.com

07809 407950

Pete Mottram

Practice Manager, Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury (Multi-Track)

peterm@no5.com

Matthew Reeves

Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury (Multi Track) and Regulatory Clerk

matthewr@no5.com

Tracey Witherford

Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury (Multi-Track) Clerk

traceyw@no5.com

Morgan Smith

Clinical Negligence (Multi-Track) & Personal Injury Clerk

morgans@no5.com

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